To the west the town borders the city of Rensselaer from the North Greenbush line to southern tip of the city, then East Greenbush's border is with Albany County town of Bethlehem, the border being in the middle of the Hudson River.
By 1927, when The Atlantic Monthly published his short story Fifty Grand, Hemingway's first two books -- the collection of stories In Our Time (1925) and the novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) -- had already established the twenty-eight-year-old author as a rising literary star on the expatriate scene in Paris.
The House of the Rising Sun is a traditional folk song, sometimes called Rising Sun Blues. It tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by British rock group the Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and also in the United States and France. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the first folk rock hit.